article on uses of electricity in non agriculture farming
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Rural electrification is the process of bringing electrical power to rural and remote areas. Electricity is used not only for lighting and household purposes, but it also allows for mechanization of many farming operations, such as well-pumping, threshing, milking, and silo filling. In areas facing labor shortages, this allows for greater productivity at reduced cost. Electrification began in cities and towns and gradually extended to rural areas. An inherent challenge of extending electrical grids into the countryside is that doing so is expensive, but amortizing its capital cost well enough to sufficiently reduce the unit cost of each hook-up is harder to do in lightly populated areas (yielding higher per capita share of the expense). One famous program was the New Deal's Rural Electrification Administration in the United States, which pioneered many of the schemes still practiced in other countries.
At least a billion people worldwide still lack household electric power - a population equal to that of the entire world in the early 19th century.
As of the mid 2010s an estimated 200 to 300 million people in India (15 to 20 percent of the total population) lack electricity as well as seven out of eight rural Sub-Saharan Africans. Many more receive only intermittent and poor quality electric power.[1][2] In 2012 Some 23% of people in East Java, Indonesia, a core region, also lack electricity, as surveyed in 2013.